Airline Data Processing

This section describes how to process airline payments.

Requirement

When you are ready to go live with airline data processing, contact Cybersource Customer Support to have your account configured to process airline data. If your account is not enabled, and you try to send airline transactions, you will receive an error for invalid data.

Related Information

See Airline Data for information about and requirements for processing payments that include airline data.

See Airline Data Reference Information for a list and description of the different document type and ancillary service category codes that are used when processing payments that include airline data.

Airline Travel Legs

Some processors require travel legs in the API service request, even for direct flights. This section describes how to successfully include travel legs in an API request.

Using Travel Legs

To include travel legs in an airline transaction, include one or more

airlineData_leg_#_

fields, starting with the

airlineData_leg_0_

fields.

Direct flights only use the

airlineData_leg_0_

fields.

For multiple leg trips, the

airlineData_leg_#_

fields must start at 0, and you must use consecutive numbers for the additional legs.

If you skip a number, Cybersource ignores the legs that follow the skipped number.

For example, these three travel legs are valid:

<leg id="0">
    <carrierCode>XX</carrierCode>
</leg>
<leg id="1">
    <carrierCode>XZ</carrierCode>
</leg>
<leg id="2">
    <carrierCode>XX</carrier<code>
</leg>

Travel Leg Limitations

Some processors limit the number of travel legs for each trip based on the card type.

Airline Data Processing

Authorizations

This section describes how to process an airline authorization.

Authorization Restrictions

Ticket purchases that include multiple passengers may be included in a single authorization request, but you must make separate capture requests for every passenger.

If any ancillary purchases are made at the same time as the ticket purchase, you may include all items in a single authorization request, but you must separate the ancillary and ticket purchases into their own capture requests.

If any ancillary purchases are made not at the same time as the ticket purchase, you must send separate authorization and capture requests for the ancillary and ticket purchases.

Endpoint

Set the

ccAuthService_run

field to

true

Send the request to

https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor

Airline Data Processing

Captures for Ticket Purchases

This section describes how to capture an airline payment for ticket purchases.

Captures for ticket purchases must be made separately from captures for ancillary purchases. For more information about how to capture an ancillary purchase, see Captures for Ancillary Purchases.

Travel Legs

You can use travel leg fields for trips that have multiple legs. For more information on how to use travel leg fields, see Airline Data.

Leg Limitations

Visa Platform Connect limits the maximum number of legs for each trip based on card type. This table describes the maximum number of legs for each trip based on card type.

`Visa Platform Connect` Leg Limitations
Supported Card Types	Maximum Number of Trip Legs
American Express	4
Discover	4
Mastercard	4
Visa	4

Endpoint

Set the

ccCaptureService_run

field to

true

Send the request to

https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor

Airline Data Processing

Captures for Ancillary Purchases

This section describes how to capture an airline payment for ancillary purchases.

Ancillary purchases are any additional services, such as baggage, meals, and paid seats, that your customers can purchase. Captures for ancillary purchases must be made separately from captures for ticket purchases.

Endpoint

Set the

ccCaptureService_run

field to

true

Send the request to

https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor

Airline Data Processing

Follow-On Credits

This topic describes how to process an airline follow-on credit.

This service returns the funds used in the initial capture and requires the original capture ID.

Endpoint

Set the

ccCreditService_run

field to

true

Send the request to

https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor

Airline Data Processing

Stand-Alone Credits

This topic describes how to process an airline stand-alone credit.

This service distributes funds without requiring a capture ID.

All fields used in the original transaction must be included in your request.

Endpoint

Set the

ccCreditService_run

field to

true

Send the request to

https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor

Airline Data Processing